Re: [css-d] Assorted CSS questions

2010-08-17 Thread Averill Ring at Irisweb
With regard only to the markup question, use the w3c markup validation service. http://validator.w3.org/ Your home page markup validates-- I did not check the inside pages... http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1uri=http%3A%2F%2Firisweb.net%2Femily%2F Fwiw, it is usually best to use

Re: [css-d] Assorted CSS questions

2010-08-17 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Averill Ring at Irisweb wrote: Fwiw, it is usually best to use a strict doctype for a new site. Why? Because it will help you (the page author) identify out-of-date and/or deprecated practices (if you validate the page, but not otherwise, unless your authoring tool is DOCTYPE sensitive).

Re: [css-d] Assorted CSS questions

2010-08-17 Thread David Laakso
Averill Ring at Irisweb wrote: Fwiw, it is usually best to use a strict doctype for a new site. Why? Averill Because HTML 4.01 Strict [and XHTML 1.0 Strict] emphasize structure over presentation and they are /forward/ compatible. Best, ~d -- :: desktop and mobile ::

Re: [css-d] Assorted CSS questions

2010-08-17 Thread Reese
On 17 Aug 10 13:32 PM, David Laakso wrote: Averill Ring at Irisweb wrote: Fwiw, it is usually best to use a strict doctype for a new site. Why? Because HTML 4.01 Strict [and XHTML 1.0 Strict] emphasize structure over presentation and they are /forward/ compatible. Also, I believe it is

Re: [css-d] Assorted CSS questions

2010-08-17 Thread Erica Cavin
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 16:48 -0400, Reese wrote: On 17 Aug 10 13:32 PM, David Laakso wrote: Averill Ring at Irisweb wrote: Fwiw, it is usually best to use a strict doctype for a new site. Why? Because HTML 4.01 Strict [and XHTML 1.0 Strict] emphasize structure over presentation

Re: [css-d] Assorted CSS questions

2010-08-17 Thread Michael Geary
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Erica Cavin ecav...@verizon.net wrote: I use transitional when I want to use have links open in a new window with target=blank. Strict doesn't allow target=blank. If there's a better way to have a link open in a new window under strict I'd prefer to use

Re: [css-d] Assorted CSS questions

2010-08-17 Thread Thierry Koblentz
I use transitional when I want to use have links open in a new window with target=blank. Strict doesn't allow target=blank. If there's a better way to have a link open in a new window under strict I'd prefer to use that. As Michael said, target=blank is different than target=_blank.

[css-d] Assorted CSS questions

2010-08-13 Thread Averill Ring at Irisweb
I could use some suggestions with this site http://irisweb.net/emily Three things: 1) In validating the pages, I keep getting this same error message: previous problem http://www.totalvalidator.com/validator/Validator#p0E649 http://www.totalvalidator.com/validator/Validator#E649 The

Re: [css-d] Assorted CSS questions

2010-08-13 Thread David Laakso
Averill Ring at Irisweb wrote: I could use some suggestions with this site http://irisweb.net/emily Three things: 1) In validating the pages, I keep getting this same error message: previous problem http://www.totalvalidator.com/validator/Validator#p0E649

Re: [css-d] Assorted CSS questions

2010-08-13 Thread David Laakso
Averill Ring at Irisweb wrote: I could use some suggestions with this site http://irisweb.net/emily There's always a difference between the font rendering from IE8 to FF, IE always looking larger and bolder. Is there a fix for this? Averill Ring Is IE at default? IE/8

Re: [css-d] Assorted CSS questions

2010-08-13 Thread Felix Miata
On 2010/08/11 16:24 (GMT-0400) Averill Ring at Irisweb composed: 2) There's always a difference between the font rendering from IE8 to FF, IE always looking larger and bolder. Is there a fix for this? As to boldness difference: I use Windows so little I'm rusty on specifics, but IIRC, IE8

Re: [css-d] Assorted CSS questions

2010-08-13 Thread David Laakso
Averill Ring at Irisweb wrote: I could use some suggestions with this site http://irisweb.net/emily I've tried to get the bottom of the right column to line up vertically with the bottom of the left column. If I make a height declaration for #contentright it drops it down and renders it

Re: [css-d] Assorted CSS questions

2010-08-13 Thread David Laakso
Averill Ring wrote: David, you ... trimmed Averill I could use some suggestions with this site http://irisweb.net/emily Averill Ring Averill, O.K. I hope it works out for you. It is a good to reply to the list as others may wish to express their opinion. Best, ~d PS